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12 Jul 2011, 6:15 am by Ted Frank
Still, it's funny to note that Michelle Obama ordered a 1700-calorie meal at a popular chain burger restaurant (though no reporter has verified whether she cleaned her plate). [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 9:45 am
& Elizabeth Williamson: The Obama administration has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 billion in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints from businesses. [read post]
26 May 2009, 12:47 pm by Bonnie Lerner
President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. [read post]
4 Apr 2009, 4:15 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] may lift travel and money transfer restrictions with Cuba [State Department backgrounder; JURIST news archive], according to statements by administration officials Saturday. [read post]
6 Dec 2009, 1:46 am
[JURIST] The Obama administration is seeking Illinois congressional support [Washington Post report] for a plan to purchase a prison facility in northwestern Illinois to house terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], the Washington Post reported Sunday. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 12:49 pm
I expected Obama to have a canned speech. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 7:50 am by Daniel Makosky
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Friday signed [press release] a bill [text, PDF] that will allow Americans to claim contributions made to Haitian earthquake [JURIST news archive] relief efforts as a deduction on their 2009 federal income tax returns. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 1:12 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Tuesday nominated [press release] Judge David Hamilton [official profile] to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [official website], thereby moving to fill the first of 15 federal appellate vacancies [DOJ materials]. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 11:21 pm
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] urged sweeping reform of the American financial regulatory system in a speech [text] on his economic revitalization plan to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 3:30 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] on Wednesday issued the first executive orders of his presidency, focusing on White House ethics and transparency. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 3:59 am
[JURIST] US President-elect Barack Obama officially announced [transition materials and transcript] on Monday that he is nominating former Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] official Eric Holder [professional profile; JURIST report] as the next US attorney general. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 6:46 am
[JURIST] The administration of US President Barack Obama [official profile] will appeal a ruling made last week by Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] that allowed detainees being held by the US in Afghanistan to proceed with habeas corpus challenges [JURIST report] to their detention. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 11:05 am by Paul Caron
Americans for Tax Reform, Gibbs Misleads Public on Obama’s Broken Tax Pledge: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs seems to have forgotten that his boss has already broken his central campaign promise – a “firm pledge” that “no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax... [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 2:41 pm
The White House website has been updated to announce the Obama administration position on changes needed in the bankruptcy law. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 5:06 pm by Howard Friedman
Yesterday President Obama issued a statement (full text) wishing Orthodox Christians a joyful holiday. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 6:28 am
President Obama’s political philosophy–what I call “deliberative conversation–has at its center piece, the idea of community. [read post]
28 Mar 2010, 10:19 am by Paul Caron
President Obama yesterday made 15 recess appointments: Michael F. [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 1:33 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official profile] issued a memorandum [text; White House statement] Friday repealing a ban on federal funding for international family planning programs that provide or give out information and counseling about abortion [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 7:06 pm by Howard Friedman
Yesterday President Obama announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend the Inauguration Mass of newly-elected Pope Francis in the Vatican on Tuesday. [read post]